My family and I rented the "Above the River" cabin on the Tuckasegee River for a week in August. The cabin was even better than the pictures show on their website. Big deck overlooking the river, with 5 fans to keep you cool and big enough for the whole family to hang out and enjoy the river and the peaceful setting. Definitely a bonus being a dead end road and feeling secluded plus it was easy to dart into Sylva (5 min.) to pick up supplies. The cabin technically has bed space for 8 people, we stretched that to 15 with air mattresses and it had enough room for our RV to park and hook up to electricity, which housed a few more peeps for the week. The Tuckasegee is beautiful, you can drive up the road, put in your tubes or kayaks and float back down to the cabin. Better done when the damn is open and the stream is higher. Fishing is good, brooks, browns and rainbows as well as some bass. We mostly fly fished in front and if I would have went upstream to the dam earlier, I would have fished that back down to the cabin in a kayak or raft. Overall, excellent stay! Nobody wanted to leave when the weak was up...weather was great and bug free!!! read more

We rented a cabin through Smoky Mountain Getaways. When we arrived there were numerous issues, primarily being that the cabin was not ready for us when we arrived. When I notified the Rental company about the issues we had with the rental, they gave us a full refund even though I had suggested that a 1 day refund might be appropriate. I will definitely use the rental company again just based on their response to our issues. Not many businesses take decisive actions when customers are unhappy and they went above and beyond what I expected. They also mentioned in our discussions that they were meeting the rental owner at the cabin to make sure all issues were being corrected. Ernest Knepp Middlebury, IN read more

We rented with Smoky Mountain Getaways. We rented the Orr House because how nice it looked along the river and the pictures were beautiful. The cabin itself was clean and had everything we needed in it. What we didn't realize was the highway was 100 yards from the back porch, very noisy, we could not sit on our porch with our morning coffee. Once we arrived at the house we had 2 dogs that hung out on the back deck, couldn't get rid of them. They eventually made their way into the house even though we tried to keep the door closed. We spent the day rafting and came back to the house and had a nice snack and some wine by the river, the back yard is nice. The next door neighbor starting cutting the grass at OUR cabin were staying at. We asked him 3 times to not do that, he continued and we ended up going into the house so he wouldn't spray grass on us. We took a video of this and sent it to the owners. The last night the trip another dog showed up, ran into the cabin and wouldn't leave. We had to yell next door for the owner to come get his dogs. We did get 2 days off the price but I would reconsider going back there. read more